Dear Joel, it is right that Jünger always fled from society, as a 18 year old schoolboy to the foreign legion, and as a old man as an anarch into the forest. Who finances this freedom? That is a typical question of a marxist. Today we have in modern society millions of anarchs: Young people who don´t want to make a career and don´t want to participate in the "rat race" and subsist with temporary jobs, or doing their own business, or even with social welfare or who live from the money of their parents, young people who experiment with drugs, travel, read, write (all the things that Jünger did), sometimes temporarily, sometimes as a choosen lifestile. They survive in the economical and geographical niches that modern, rich and developed societies always offer. The question is not "who finances this freedom?" the question is: "Do you dare to live an individualistic, anti-conformistic life, even if means to have less money than average people, even if it means that you don´t get the recognition that average people get as so called hard-working citizens?". Besides: Also an anarch can work very hard. Jünger wrote a lot of books and earned some money with it. But an Anarch will always do a work that is also rewarding for himself. He won´t work only for money or because he has fear to be evaluated as an unworthy, lazy outsider in society. Yours, Klaus
--- Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail.com> schrieb am Mo, 4.1.2010: Von: Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail.com> Betreff: [juenger_org] Niekisch's Critique of Juenger An: "juenger_org" <juenger_org@yahoogroups.de> Datum: Montag, 4. Januar 2010, 14:26 Was reviewing my notes on Eliot Neaman's Dubious Past (P. 188-189), and came across this: In a two-page critique of the Waldgang, a copy of which Niekisch sent to Juenger, the former editor of the national Bolshevist Widerstand compared Juenger ot Max Stirner, whose individualism was nearly solipsistic. Acording to Niekisch, Juenger doesn’t realize how indebted every individual is to the collective: indeed, he remarks, “glorious isolation” is a version of societal exploitation. Niekisch wonders why the figure of the Waldgaenger has achieved such popularity among conservatives, positing that postwar individualism is the last refuge o the European intellectual, threatened by the mass culture of America nad the Stalinist Leviathan of Russia. Niekisch detects in all of Juenger’s poses the flight from society, ”whether in Africa, as a heroic soldier, a gourmet of aesthetics, as a runaway from Hitle’rs army in the dreamy reflection of Gardens and Streets, as a mountain dweller in the cosmic sphere of Heliopolis. .. . wherever one looks, one uncovers the figure of the fleeing nihilist.” Finally, Niekisch asks, “where is the forest?” He considers the trees a natural metaphor for solitude and refuge, comparable to Rousseau’s idea of nature. AS such the forest “is the somber feeling, the intuitive sense of the inner self, emancipated from the exterior world.” Niekisch concludes with the material question, “who finances this freedom” Curious how list members would respond to Niekisch's critiques. Best, Joel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verfügt über einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. http://mail.yahoo.com
